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i don't know too, i not yet watch the movie. Scriptgirl, i think we don't share the same taste of beauty , unless Ava's beauty, i don't think he's handsome or Angelina's beautiful.

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Classic Era
Born on a tobacco farm, where she got her lifelong love of earthy language and going barefoot, Ava grew up in the rural South. At age 18, her picture in the window of her brother-in- law's New York photo studio brought her to the attention of MGM, leading quickly to Hollywood and a film contract based strictly on her beauty.
With zero acting experience, her first 17 film roles, 1942-5, were one-line bits or little better. After her first starring role in B-grade Whistle Stop (1946), MGM loaned her to Universal for her first outstanding film, The Killers (1946). Few of her best films were made at MGM which, keeping her under contract for 17 years, used her popularity to sell many mediocre films. Perhaps as a result, she never believed in her own acting ability, but her latent talent shone brightly when brought out by a superior director, as with John Ford in Mogambo (1953) and George Cukor in Bhowani Junction (1956).
After 3 failed marriages, dissatisfaction with Hollywood life prompted Ava to move to Spain in 1955; most of her subsequent films were made abroad. By this time, stardom had made the country girl a cosmopolitan, but she never overcame a deep insecurity about acting and life in the spotlight. Her last quality starring film role was in The Night of the Iguana (1964), her later work being (as she said) strictly "for the loot". In 1968, tax trouble in Spain prompted a move to London, where she spent her last 22 years in reasonable comfort. Her film career did not bring her great fulfillment, but her looks may have made it inevitable; many fans still consider her the most beautiful actress in Hollywood history

 

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Dragon Lady
Ava Gardner is my favorite classic leading Hollywood actress. When I was younger, I first saw her in the movie, Knights of the Round Table. She was Queen Guinevere, with her captivating dark hair, glowing soft skin, emerald green eyes, and cheshire cat smiling full lips, I thought she was much more beautiful than Marilyn Monroe.
I admired her that she did not allow the make up people to do her eyebrows, she did them herself. She wanted to be recognized for her talent, not her looks. She dated a bullfighter and learned to flamenco dance. She hid herself from the spotlights as she got older. She was an amazing actress.

 

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Memoirs Biographies
From Publishers Weekly Acting & Auditioning Ava : My Story
In this fluent diary, Gardner, who die finishing January at age 67, tell of her upbringing bordered by a disadvantaged but overconfident Southern ancestral, her hasty glory in early-'40s Hollywood--mainly because of her beauty--and rail bad-tempered MGM, which play up and about her cheesecake latent. Gardner also sketch a lurid image of Howard Hughes, who in favour of years stopped at no machination in an unproductive framework an action to bed and marry her. Photos not see next to PW . She smartly arithmetic up the worries in respectively of her three succinct marriage: Mickey Rooney be a stretch out womanizer; Artie Shaw was make colder and commanding; Frank Sinatra (the two be the love of each other's lives) was by route of domineering as she, central to drunken ambitious fight. Of the seven incorporated "eulogies" from friends and colleagues, Stephen Birmingham's first-class capture the rapture and blow of Gardner's instance. A introverted female who previously owned draft to crumb safe and blast socially, Gardner seem terribly likable, down-home, out of the blue and completely critical toward her intellect, acting abilities--and even her courteous look.--This set book refers to an out of print or off limits edition of this honour.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.General Ava : My Story.
Product Description Biography / Autobiography Thorndike Press
The behind actress and sexual category badge discuss her precipitate days in Hollywood; her marriages to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra; her appealing role; her friendships and affairs; and more Reprint.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. NYT.Acting & Auditioning Thorndike Press.
a DAMN good narrative!!! General Thorndike Press.

If you can conjure up what Ava Gardner was close to, next this book be a must. When I deem of Ava Gardner, I take up to think of sexuality and booze. Ava is the bachelor woman who could enjoy turned him fuzz, and gotten away with giving him a deformity to recollect her by. She have moderately the import of humor and make numerous witty retort in regard to her life and the studio set of laws that she enthusiastically not like. This is maximum evident in her lines against husbands Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra, and how they were in bed. This is probably the best book I have ever read. Now after have read this book, I fixed think that. Also, not to be disregarded is her characteristic bond with "the Aviator" himself, Howard Hughes. It read lately like you'd imagine it would. I have read Marilyn Monroe's and Maureen O'Hara's, and they weren't nearly as alluring. This is really the best-of-the-best autobiography I have read to date. She also discusses her credit of Spain, which made me want to call round the deposit instantly, even nonetheless I have yet to playing out in vista of that do to constrained assets (I don't have a errand and still live with my parents - catch the diagram?). Biographies & Memoirs Biography / Autobiography.




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Johnston County Arts Festival
The Ava Gardner Fest is a grassroots effort to celebrate the heritage of legendary film artist Ava Gardner. This festival honors Ava’s love for her hometown and her passion for music, film and art.
Festival events will include the Arts and Fine Crafts Marketplace, the Ava Gardner Film Festival, live music on the main stage, and special exhibits. Artists will have the opportunity to display and sell their work to visitors from around the United States. Our goal is to showcase regional talent and promote North Carolina’s artist community.
Profits from the Art and Fine Crafts Marketplace help support the mission of the Johnston County Artists Guild. Any profits from other Festival events help support the Ava Gardner Museum’s mission of preserving and displaying memorabilia from the life and artistic career of Ava Gardner.
The Johnston County Artists Guild is a non-profit organization founded in August 2005. It is an organization of artists dedicated to the education, development and sustainment of the visual arts in Johnston County and neighboring counties in North Carolina. Membership may be obtained at http://www.myspace.com/jocoartistsguild.
To register for the Arts Marketplace, please visit the Johnston County Arts Council website www.johnstoncountyarts.org

 

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Citizen of Two Worlds
A Tribute to Ava Gardner

Although equally as well known for her beauty and her famous husbands as she was for her acting (one Oscar nomination, no wins), Ava Gardner nevertheless gave us many memorable performances during her 45-year career.

Born Ava Lavinia Gardner on December 24, 1922, the daughter of a North Carolina tobacco farmer, she caught MGM's eye as a beautiful teenager and was playing bit parts in films by the time she was 20. She landed her first starring role in Whistle Stop (1946), then made a splash that same year in The Killers, co-starring with Burt Lancaster. But it wasn't until 1953 when John Ford cast her in Mogambo with Clark Gable that her true talent emerged, gaining her one Oscar nomination, for Best Actress. The Barefoot Contessa followed in 1954, then George Cukor's Bhowani Junction in 1956. Other notable films during this period included Show Boat (1951), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), with Gregory Peck, The Sun Also Rises (1957), with Tyrone Power, and On the Beach (1959), again with Peck.

Her marriages were even bigger news than her films. She married actor Mickey Rooney 1941; that lasted until 1943. She married bandleader Artie Shaw in 1945; they divorced the followed year. Her marriage to Frank Sinatra was the most famous and the longest-lasting, from 1948 to 1957. (During her marriage to Sinatra, she had to lend him money, since it was during a low point in his career. Sinatra, in turn, paid all her medical expenses after her stroke in 1989, even though they were no longer married.)

It all became too much, especially when she continued to have trouble getting quality parts, and she moved to Spain in the late 50s, making most of her films in Europe after that. She later moved to London, where she lived until her death. She delivered strong performances in 55 Days at Peking (1963), with Charlton Heston, The Night of the Iguana (1964), with Richard Burton, Seven Days in May (1964), opposite Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster, but that was about all. Her beauty continued to be her greatest strength, even when she was over 50. In 1974 she appeared in Earthquake, playing Lorne Greene's daughter in spite of the fact that she was only 6 years younger than him at the time!

Her final film was an undistinguished 1986 made-for-TV effort called Harem. She spent her final years living in her apartment in London with her housekeeper Carmen and her dog, Morgan (both of whom were taken in by Gregory Peck after she died). She passed away of pneumonia in London on January 25, 1990, at the age of 67. She had just finished work on her autobiography ("Ava, My Story"), but didn't live to see the book published.
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